Coffee and a Laptop don't mix!

Saints,

Well sadly this is a true story. A coffee cup was knocked over the laptop and unforunately the laptop seems not to be working. Essentially this is the only laptop that is used to update sermonindex and hopefully the hard drive can be recovered with its information.

Do pray for provision for a new laptop saints. I suppose this things happen for a reason, the laptop was getting quite old and seemed to be ready to expire at any moment.

Also I have learned not to despair over something that has been taken away for a season, as often it has been restored! I will pray.

I'll be praying for the Lord to provide a replacement, and also for the data to be recovered.

Too bad you lost your cup of coffee... :-P

Two words... [b]BACK UP[/b]!

Maybe there really is a practical reason after all that Mormons dont drink coffee!

Krispy

Two words... BACK UP!

On a good note I got the laptop working again, by drying it under a fan and heat lamp. But this laptop has had its day mostly and will be praying about getting a new one and using this one to convert tapes etc.

thanks for the prayers and support.

Thats not the issue as much having a computer to run sermonindex with. Hopefully I will be able to save all the files but having a new laptop or computer to work with is the need right now. I appreciate prayer for this.

We recently bought a new laptop and it came with Vista... took some getting used to, but now I love Vista. A little too cartoonish, but it has a nice feel to it.

Krispy

I think we should be praying that God will provide a new computer for SI...

sermonindex wrote:

Also I have learned not to despair over something that has been taken away for a season, as often it has been restored! I will pray.

Yes hopefully this will be restored soon it is the only computer that I have to update sermonindex.net on I am using a public computer right now. Prayers are appreciated.

Greg, it would be wiser to seek wisdom on the reason the Lord allowed this to happen before hoping it would be restored soon. If you continue praying for restoration (which is the first thing coming to mind), you risk missing the voice of the Lord.

Indeed, this laptop problem may be a little thing. But if we cannot hear God about the little things that happen in our lives, but hurriedly dismiss them as "workings of Satan" or "randomness" or as irrelevant or neutral, then what assurance do we have that we are on the right path with the larger issues? For in my experience most such blunders and "sad occurrences" God has used to wake me up from slumber or deception and speak to me. But if I had focused on getting my work done or finishing the course I'd begun, I would never have heard from the Lord and [i]corrected[/i] it.

When the Lord wants to take something away from us, the easiest way to do this is to simply take it away (something gets broken, lost, stolen, etc.)--even if the very thing is our most treasured possession and our primary instrument to serve Him. But if we are seeking His will and His wisdom, we will never be quick to dismiss such occurrences lightly.

It saddens me that people are praying on the cue. Prayer is more than "asking God for something we think we need" (for the things we need, He already knows we need them); prayer is seeking the mind and will of God and being united with them.

In Christ,
Slavyan